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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Helen show Carl when she asks if they can go to LaughLand?
(a) A sad face
(b) A billboard
(c) A television advertisement
(d) A brochure

2. What role does Carl's wife play in the plans for that gift for their daughter?
(a) She sews a coverlet
(b) She paints the ceiling
(c) She arranges for a stable
(d) She paints the seat

3. How old was Carl when he married?
(a) 27
(b) 18
(c) 20
(d) 30

4. What are the newspapers calling the English Ivy that's run wild?
(a) The Ivy Monster
(b) Wild Ivy
(c) Green Giant
(d) The Green Menace

5. What does Helen say she did with the page containing the culling song?
(a) Flushed them down the toilet
(b) Tore it up and threw the pieces outside
(c) Swallowed them
(d) Burned them

6. What are all the people in Stone River wearing on their faces?
(a) A great deal of gaudy makeup
(b) Smiles
(c) A black dot between their eyes
(d) Fake moles on their cheeks

7. Why does Helen say she performs assassinations?
(a) She says it's the only way she can get the jewels she wants
(b) She says she needs the money
(c) She says she's doing the world a favor
(d) She says it's her way of controlling the power

8. What does Helen say the government is already doing in an effort to stop overpopulation?
(a) Working on a plague
(b) Nothing
(c) Offering incentives for birth control
(d) Putting birth control in water supplies

9. Why does Mona say so many women marry men in prison?
(a) To have a husband without having to live with him
(b) To get their death benefits
(c) Out of pity
(d) To heal them

10. How many copies of the poem remain unaccounted for?
(a) 26
(b) 39
(c) 91
(d) 82

11. What does Helen drop while she and Carl are riding the Ferris wheel?
(a) Carl's pager and her purse
(b) Carl's pager
(c) Her ring and planner
(d) Her cell phone and ring

12. Where does Nash say he got his copy of the culling song?
(a) The Library of Congress
(b) The Internet
(c) Carl's apartment
(d) The local book store

13. When Helen is talking to a client on the phone, what is the odor she asks is coming from the bedroom?
(a) Jell-o
(b) Sulfur
(c) Alcohol
(d) Urine

14. What does the talking Judas Cow say in Stone River?
(a) Please spare the cows
(b) Reject your meat-eating ways
(c) Live long and prosper
(d) Repent or go to hell

15. What is it that shields Mona and Oyster from the culling song?
(a) Nothing
(b) The shield spell
(c) The shelter spell
(d) Distance

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carl do the morning his wife died?

2. What does Sarge write when he arrives at the hospital room?

3. Why did sailors of years ago leave pigs and goats on islands?

4. Why is the heat in Carl's apartment on high when he gets home?

5. What does Carl say to his father?

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